Live. Die. Repeat - Life After Responsive Design | Instart Logic

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LIVE. DIE. REPEAT.
BY DAVID W. HSIEH
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Akamai's Edge Conference begins this week and I
find the name to be slightly ironic. "Edge"
refers to the edge of the Internet, which is
where CDNs place their caching servers. Back in
the last century this was a valuable concept
because it meant you could reduce the distance
that static content had to travel by caching it
"at the edge" and avoid the primary performance
bottleneck having to retrieve content from the
origin server every time. Fast forward to this
century (or should I say "faster forward") and
the "edge" isn't as valuable a concept because it
ignores the fact that most users are connected to
the Internet via some kind of wireless connection
- WiFi, 3G, 4G, LTE etc. The wireless "last mile"
has become the principal performance bottleneck
for most modern web applications. Solving for
the wireless last mile is next frontier in web
performance. For those of you who are not
convinced, you should read this blog post. Akamai
has made several attempts at improving mobile web
performance. They acquired Blaze Software, hoping
that FEO would be the right solution (wrong).Then
they acquired Cotendo, which had some features
for high latency aka mobile networks (wrong
again). More recently they announced Aqua Ion
(still wrong). All this had me thinking about a
sci-fi movie called "Edge of Tomorrow" which
starred Tom Cruise. In the movie, Cruise's
character is in a combat scene where he gets
killed only to find himself in a time loop
where he relives the same scene again. Every time
he gets killed the time loop starts over. This is
reminiscent of Akamai's mobile performance
efforts. Every time they try something, they
realize it doesn't move the needle and they start
the time loop all over again.
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Personally I'm hoping Akamai announces a new
mobile web performance product at their "Edge of
Tomorrow" conference. There's morbid fascination
in watching history repeat itself over and over
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